Gaon of Vilna). Torath Kohanim with commentaries of Rashi, Adereth Eliahu by the Gaon and Chassid...R Eliahu of Vilna and Mitzvoth Ha-Shem

(ELIJAH BEN SOLOMON ZALMAN.

Yehudah Jaffe

Kopyst

1818

FIRST EDITION of commentary with the text of Torath Kohanim and of the expanded explanatory notes in parenthesis. Sections printed on green paper

Vinograd, Kopyst 85; Dienstag, Gr"a 5; Vinograd, Gr"a 20

Athough the Adereth Eliahu was first published as part of the Chamisha Chumshei Torah published in Dubrovna, 1804, the commentary on Vayikra is especially important as a commentary on the Sifra or Torath Kohanim. Due to the Vilna Gaon's brevity, the editor of this edition added explanations in parenthesis within the text of the Adereth Eliahu. Although the editor is not identified on the title or in any of the approbations his name can in fact be found on the final line of the Introduction, whose initial letters spell out the name: Yehuda Leib ben Yaakov Lipschitz. R. Chaim Volozhiner writes in his approbation: "For a person of your stature, my approval is superfluous...it is well known that that you seek only the truth." R. Chaim calls him "She'er besari" (my relative) and "Ahuvi rav rachimai" (my beloved dear and intimate friend) , indicating that Yehuda Leib was closely connected to the Gaon's circle of intimates